--- title: Joe Biden Just Said He Would Run for President in 2020 description: Vice President Joe Biden told reporters Monday that he might run for president in 2020 canonical: https://time.com/4591498/joe-biden-president-election-2020/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-06T00:42:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T02:09:25.557Z article:section: Politics og:title: Joe Biden Said He Would Run for President in 2020. But He Wouldn't Commit og:description: "Fate has a strange way of intervening" og:url: https://time.com/4591498/joe-biden-president-election-2020/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd724ea34a15bd585/6988b0cda988ca35496ba5cc/joe-biden-president-run.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Vice-President Joe Biden visits Cartagena's Simon Bolivar Naval Base in Cartagena, Colombia, on Dec. 2, 2016. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Joe Biden Said He Would Run for President in 2020. But He Wouldn't Commit twitter:description: "Fate has a strange way of intervening" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd724ea34a15bd585/6988b0cda988ca35496ba5cc/joe-biden-president-run.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Joe Biden Just Said He Would Run for President in 2020\. But He Wouldn't Commit to It by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Dec 6, 2016 12:42 AM UTC  Vice-President Joe Biden visits Cartagena's Simon Bolivar Naval Base in Cartagena, Colombia, on Dec. 2, 2016. Vice-President Joe Biden visits Cartagena's Simon Bolivar Naval Base in Cartagena, Colombia, on Dec. 2, 2016.Guillermo Legaria—AFP/Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Dec 6, 2016 12:42 AM UTC Vice President Joe Biden told reporters Monday that he might run for president in 2020. “Yeah, I am. I am going to run in 2020,” Biden told reporters when asked if he would run for office again. Asked whether he was kidding, Biden said he wasn’t making a commitment to run, [CNBC reported](http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/05/joe-biden-predicts-he-will-run-for-president-in-2020-adds-that-he-is-not-yet-committed.html). “I’m not committing not to run,” he said. “I’m not committed to anything. I learned a long time ago, fate has a strange way of intervening.” Biden had considered running in the 2016 election, but said the [death of his eldest son Beau](http://time.com/4326174/joe-biden-best-president-2016-election/) in 2015 to cancer was too much for him to bear on the campaign trail. The cancer provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act, which is expected to pass in the Senate, was renamed for Beau Biden. 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